PEDIATRICS

1. INTRODUCTION TO PEDIATRICS

2. GROWTH
ESSAYS
1. What are the methods for assessment of physical growth? Add a note on normal growth and development in
the first year of life.(aug2013)-11
SHORTS
1. Intrauterine growth restriction.-8
2. Intra uterine infections.-8
3. Factors and laws of growth and development in children.-9
4. Mid upper arm circumference.-11
5. Head growth from birth to one year of age.-11
6. Mid-arm circumference.-11
7. Age independent anthropometric criteria.-13
8. Age independent criteria of growth.-13
9. How to approach a child with short stature and it’s management? -31
10. Short stature.-31
11. Define: Failure to thrive. Mention common causes of failure to thrive.-35
12. Microcephaly.-36

3. DEVELOPMENT

4. DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

SHORTS
1. Autism.-55
2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).-55
3. PICA.-57
4. Breath holding spells.-57
5. Anoxic spell.-57
6. Temper tantrum.-57

5. ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

SHORTS
1. Adolescent girl child nutrition.60
2. Common health problems during adolescence.-62

6. FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCES

SHORTS
1. Treatment of hyperkalemia.-75
2. Management of hyperkalemia.-75

7. NUTRITION
ESSAYS
1. Write an essay on the factors affecting growth and development and causes of short stature.(aug2011)-31
a. Define: Severe acute malnutrition. (2 Marks)
b. Discuss the management of SAM. (8 Marks)(jan2020)-93
2. .Write IAP and WHO classification of protein energy malnutrition. Write the difference between Marasmus
and Kwashiorkor in tabular form. How you will manage mild to moderate malnutrition in a child of three
years?(august2016)-93
3. Write a brief account on aetiology, clinical feature,classification and treatment of Marasmus.(jan2011)-95
SHORTS
1. Prevention of protein energy malnutrition.-93
2. PEM (Protein energy malnutrition) classification.-93

8. MICRONUTRIENTS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

SHORTS
1. Nutritional rickets.-111
2. Scurvy.-120

9. NEWBORN INFANTS
SHORTS
1. Meconium aspiration syndrome.-129
2. Hypothermia in preterm baby.-142
3. Tens steps in successful breast feeding.-145
4. Composition of breast milk.-147
5. Feeding of low birth weight baby.-149
6. Kangaroo mother care indications and benefits.-151
7. Kangaroo mother care (KMC).-151
8. Kangaroo mother care.-151
9. Indirect markers of neonatal infection.-159
10. Causes of respiratory distress in newborn.-164
11. Apnoea in new borns.-167
12. Neonatal jaundice.-168
13. Cause of neonatal jaundice and management of hyperbiliurbinemia of newborn.-168
14. Phototherapy.-168
15. Management of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in new born.-168
16. Etiology and management of pathological jaundice in newborn baby.-168
17. Physiological Jaundice.-168
18. Pathological jaundice of newborn.-168
19. Phototherapy in neonatal jaundice.-171
20. Tracheaesophageal fistula.-172
21. Problems of cleft lip and cleft palate in infants.-174
22. Infant of diabetic mother.-176

10. IMMUNIZATION AND IMMUNODEFICIENCY

SHORTS
1. BCG.-185
2. Infectable polio vaccine.-186
3. Pneumococcal vaccine.-193
4. Rotavirus vaccine.-194
5. Human pailloma virus vaccine.-194
6. Rotavirus vaccine.-194
7. Varicella vaccine.-196,211
8. Varicella vaccine.-196
9. Cold chain.-202
10. Cold chain.-202
 11. INFECTIONS AND INFESTATIONS
ESSAYS
1. Discuss the clinical features, complications and management of measles.(aug2015)-209
2. ‘What are the various causes of fever with rash? Write in detail about the etiopathogenesis, clinical features,
complications, treatment and prophylaxis of measles in children.(feb2017)-209
SHORTS
1. complications of Measles.-209
2. Complications of chicken pox.-210
3. Clinical features of dengue fever.-219
4. Dengue shock syndrome-219
5. Opportunistic infections in HIV.-224
6. Opportunistic infection in HIV children.-225
7. Complications of typhoid fever.-238
8. Enteric fever — Management.-238
9. Management of tetanus.--241
10. Diagnosis of extra-thoracic tuberculosis.-244
11. Mantoux test.-246
12. Mantoux test.-246
13. Mantoux test.-246
14. Differential diagnosis and treatment of cerebral malaria.-254,
15. malaria in children.-254,
16. Anti malarial drugs.-257
17. Ascariasis.-265

12.DISEASES OF GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM AND LIVER

ESSAYS
1. Describe in detail about aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features and management of Hepatic
Encephalopathy.(feb2013)-314
SHORTS
1. Causes of constipation in children.-278
2. Assessment of dehydration in children with acute diarrhea.-287
3. Clinical features and management of cerebral Fluid management in diarrhoea (WHO).-287
4. Oral rehydration therapy.-289
5. Oral rehydration therapy.-289
6. Treatment plan-C (children with severe dehydration).-290
7. Plan — C, treatment of acute diarrhoeal disease.-290
8. Causes of hepatosplenomegaly.-307
9. Clinical features of Wilson disease.-322
10. Wilson’s disease in children.-322

13. HEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS

ESSAYS
1. State the causes of hemolytic anemias in children. Discuss complications and management of a child with
beta- thalassemia major.(july2012)-339
SHORTS
1. Peripheral blood smear picture of nutritional anaemias.-328
2. Peripheral blood smear picture in anaemias.-329
3. Investigations and management of nutritional anemia in children.-329
4. Treatment of iron deficiency anemia.-333
5. Diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia.-333
6. Medical management of beta thalassemia.-339
7. Haemophilia.-351

14. OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

15.DISORDERS OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

ESSAYS
1. Write the causes, clinical features and management of community acquired pneumonia in children.(jan2020)-
377
SHORTS
1. Discuss the management of acute onset of wheeze in a 2 years old child.-373
2. Acute bronchiolitis.-380
3. Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) control programme.-380
4. Acute bronchiolitis in children.-380
5. Assessment and management of acute severe asthma in children.-382
6. Management of acute asthma.-382
7. Management of Acute Severe Asthma (Status Asthmaticus).-382,388
8. Management of acute seyere asthma.-382
9. Management of acute severe asthma.-382,388

16.DISORDERS OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

ESSAYS
1. Enumerate the causes of congestive cardiac failure in children. Discuss briefly the pathophysiology, clinical
manifestation and management of CCF.(july2014)-394
2. Describe the etiopathogenesis, clinical features, management and prevention of acute rheumatic fever in
children.(july2018)—430
3. Discuss the diagnostic criteria for Acute Rheumatic fever. How do you manage rheumatic arthritis? Add a note
on prophylaxis against rheumatic fever.(july2010)-434

SHORTS
1. Principles in the management of congestive cardiac failure.-394
2. Diagnosis and management of congestive heart failure.-394
3. Congestive cardiac failure (CCF) in infants: causes, clinical features and management.-394
4. Cyanotic spells.-408
5. Cyanotic spells.-408
6. Describe cyanotic spell. Write its management.-408
7. Tet spell or cyanotic spell.-408
8. Cyanotic spells.-408
9. Management of ventricular septal defect.-411
10. Management of hyper cyanotic spell in Fallot’s Tetralogy.-417
11. Complications of tetralogy of fallot and
12. management of cyanotic spells.-417
13. Cyanotic spells — Management.-417
14. Complication and treatment of tetralogy of fallot.-417

17.DISORDERS OF KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT

ESSAYS
1. Mention various causes of proteinuria in a child. Write about aetiopathogenesis, management and
complications of nephrotic syndrome.(jan2010)-472
SHORTS
1. Importance of urine examination in children.-463
2. Management of acute glomerulo nephritis. Enumerate complications of acute glomerulo nephritis.-469
3. Complications of acute glomerulonephritis.-469
4. Complications in acute glomerular nephritis.-469
5. Clinical features and management of post streptococcal glomerulonephritis.-469
6. Management of nephrotic syndrome-472
7. Write a note on investigations and management of first episode of nephrotic syndrome.-472
8. What are the causes of pathological jaundice in newborn?Write about phototherapy.-168
9. Clinical features and management of nephrotic syndrome.-472
10. Treatment of urinary tract infection.-478
11. Urinary tract infection (UTI) in children.-478
12. Causes of acute renal failure in children.-482
13. Hemolytic uremic syndrome.-487
14. Haemolytic — Uraemic syndrome (HUS).487
15. How to suspect and diagnose chronic renal failure in a 10 years old child-489
16. Nocturnal eneuresis.-499
17. Nocturnal enuresis.-499
18. Define enuresis. Describe it's etiology and management.-499
19. Treatment of enuresis.-499,58

18.ENDOCRINE AND METABOLIC DISORDERS

SHORTS
1. Investigations and treatment of a newborn with hypothyroidism.-511
2. Discuss clinical features and management of congenital hypothyroidism.-511
3. Write about diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism.-511
4. Management of DKA (Diabetic — ketoacidosis) in children.-546

19.DISEASE OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

ESSAYS
1. A three day old newborn presents with convulsions:
What are the various causes of conyvulsions in this child? | (6 Marks)
What investigations you will do to arrive at a diagnosis? (6 Marks)
Outline the management of this condition. (8 Marks)(feb2018)-553
2. Define cerebral palsy. Describe its etiopathogenesis, clinical features, classification and
management.(jan2020)-564
SHORTS
1. Management of status epilepticus.-553
2. Convulsions in newborn.-553
3. Neonatal seizures.-553
4. Febrile convulsions.-554
5. Febrile convulsion.-554
6. Febrile convulsions.-554
7. Febrile seizures: clinical features, management and prophylaxis.-554
8. Clinical features and management of febrile seizures.-554
9. Definition and causes of microcephaly.-557,36
10. Microcephaly.-557,37
11. Neural tube defects.-557
12. CSF findings in tuberculous meningitis and pyogenic meningitis.-562
13. What are the immediate and late complication of bacterial meningitis in newborn? Discuss the diagnosis and
management of one of them.-561
20.NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
ESSAYS
1. Discuss the differential diagnosis, clinical features and management of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP).(feb2019)-
586
SHORTS
1. D/D of acute flaccid paralysis.-586
2. Acute flaccid paralysis-surveillance programme.-586

21.CHILDHOOD MALIGNANCIES
SHORTS
1. Classification of acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL).-600

22.RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS
SHORTS
1. Diagnosis of rheumatic arthritis.-620

23.GENETIC DISORDERS
SHORTS
1. Down's syndrome.-635
2. Prenatal diagnosis of Down’s syndrome.-635

24.INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM

25.OPTHALMIC DISORDERS

26.SKIN DISORDERS

27.POISONING,INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

SHORTS
1. Kerosene poisoning.-707
2. Kerosene poisoning in children.-712
3. Clinical features and management of snake bite in children.-716
4. Scorpion ting.-718

28.PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE

29.IMPORTANT MEDICAL PROCEDURES

SHORTS
1. Heimlich maneuver.-736
30.RATIONAL DRUG THERAPHY

31.INTEGRATED MANAGMENT OF NEONATAL AND CHILDHOOD ILLNESS

SHORTS
1. IMNCI management of diarrhoea with severe dehydration.-766
2. Features of possible bacterial infection as in IMNCI programme.-766

32.RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Esaays unknown
1. 1.Discuss in detail, the management of 3 year old child with acute gastroenteritis.(feb2012)-
2. 1.Discuss in detail, the management of 3 year old child with acute gastroenteritis.(feb2014)
3. Definition, pathogenesis, clinical features, complications and management of minimal change nephritic
syndrome.(feb2015)
4. Define preterm. How will you identify a preterm? Describe the complications and management of a preterm
baby(july2017)
5. Discuss the etiology, clinical features, investigations and treatment of neonatal sepsis. Add a note on its
prevention.(july2019)

Shorts unknown
• Stages of consolidation.
• Empyema thoracis.
• Clubbing of fingers.-
• Warm chain.-
• Hyper Splenism.-
• National immunization days.-
• Bells palsy.-
• Phenylketonuria.
• Various national nutritional programmes.-
• . Aerosol therapy.-
• .CSF findings in pyogenic meningitis.-
• . Reproductive and child health programme.-
• Write about lactation failure.-650